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  1. How do I easily type Greek letters on Windows 10?

    Jun 22, 2020 · I have only ever used English language settings for keyboards and Operating Systems. As I am starting to learn Greek, I would like to be able to easily type in it. What is the …

  2. typography - On the Windows polytonic Greek keyboard, what is …

    Jan 18, 2021 · Background In the very helpful document ‘Typing ancient (polytonic) Greek in a Windows environment’, there is a noticable difference between the accent shown where the …

  3. etymology - Have these Greek letters been related to these Latin ...

    Mar 24, 2024 · What Latin/English letters have the last four Greek letters phi, chi, psi, and omega been related to? What Greek letters have been related to Latin/English letters w and q?

  4. How shall I remember the order between the letters in Greek …

    Mar 20, 2024 · The Greek alphabet is also a decimal number system made up of ordinal and cardinal numbers. Beginning with the Babylonians and the Egyptian astronomer-priests, 24 …

  5. ancient greek - The pronunciation of Eta (η) - Latin Language …

    Nov 28, 2020 · I have visited some sources and I can't finally understand that Eta (η) in Ancient Greek pronounced like ' eɪ ' (del ay), or like ' eə ' (h ai r). In fact, should we say an ' ɪ ' at the …

  6. greek - The disappearance of digamma - Latin Language Stack …

    Apr 4, 2018 · The phoneme /w/ survived in some Greek dialects (Doric, Aeolic and others) but not in Ionic/Attic. It is written in inscriptions, but not (for example) in the manuscripts of Pindar …

  7. alphabet - Using "u" to transliterate Greek "υ" (upsilon) into …

    Mar 5, 2024 · The typical advice that you receive, when transliterating Greek words into Roman letters, is that Greek υ (upsilon) can either be Roman "y" or "u." (See, …

  8. Capital and non-capital letters in the Greek alphabet

    Aug 23, 2023 · Is there a reason why only some of the capital and non-capital letters of the Greek alphabet are different?

  9. ancient greek - Why did the letters in the alphabet shift position ...

    The Archaic Latin Alphabet essentially copied the Etruscan Alphabet, so it inherited Z z in its original position in the alphabet. Around the 3rd Century BCE (still the Old Latin Period), Z z …

  10. alphabet - Where did the Greek sibilant letters come from? - Latin ...

    The predecessor to the modern Greek alphabet was the Phoenician alphabet, which had four "sibilant" letters: 𐤆 zayin /z/ 𐤎 samekh /s/ 𐤑 ṣade /ṣ/ 𐤔 šin /š/ According to Jeffery, these …